CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Student injured in accident
A KU student was injured Monday morning after the motorcycle he was driving was hit and dragged 41 feet by a pickup truck, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Jerry Rattifl, Lawrence junior, received cuts on his hands, arms and legs. He was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday morning.
Police said the motorcycle had entered the intersection of 11th and Rhode Island streets at about 9:30 a.m., when it was hit by the truck.
Police said the driver of the truck had failed to yield the right of way at a stop sign.
The motorcycle slid under the truck, was caught and was dragged 41 feet, police said. The driver of the truck told police he had broken a rearview mirror and realized it was the motorcycle, police said.
KU senior wins fellowship
A KU senior has been awarded $8,000 for graduate studies by the 1985 Mellon Fellowships in the humanities.
Ireland plans to attend Cornell University next year to begin work on his doctoral program in literary theory and 20th century American literature.
The Mellon Fellowships, established in 1982 by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, are intended to encourage students with experience in science to pursue careers in higher education.
After attending school, Ireland said, he wants to pursue a teaching career in college English.
Kansan taking applications
The Kanas is accepting applications for news and business staff positions for the following:
Applications are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the organizations and activities office, 403 Business Center; and the business office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
KU Academic Day planned
Applications originally were due by 5 p.m. tomorrow in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall, but the deadline has been extended until 5 p.m. Friday.
About 350 high school sophomores and juniors from Kansas and Missouri will attend the first KU Academic Day on Saturday.
The students, who were selected by their teachers and counselors, will attend three of 13 sessions that emphasize specific areas of study - architecture, business, humanities, math and science, social sciences, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, journalism, law, pharmacy and social welfare.
The students, who were selected for scholarship abilities and interest in attending college, will attend the sessions if the morning and are invited to attend a luncheon at the Kansas Union.
Weather
Today will be sunny, windy and warm with a high in the low to mid-80s. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be clear with a low in the low 50s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid-80s.
Compiled from Kangan stuff and United
Press international reports.
Where to call
If you have a news tip or a photo idea,
call the Kansan at 864-4810.
If your idea deals with campus news, ask or Rob Karpath, campus editor. If it deals with sports, ask for Lauretta Schultz, sports editor. For On campus items or information on arts and leisure, speak with John Egan, Et cetera editor.
If you have a complaint or a problem,
ask for Malt Decalan, editor, or Diane
Scheffler.
To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-4358.
Mary Goodwin, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, uses a tree trunk to support ner paper while she paints. Goodwin, who was making the painting for a class, said yesterday that she would call it "Ode To The Tree."
Senate could limit effect of petitions
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
A bill that would prohibit student votes to cut off funds for any student organization was approved last night by the Student Senate Rights Committee.
The measure was initiated by Michael Foubert, graduate student senator, and Thom Davidson, former Elections Committee chairman. It is in response to a student petition that called for a student vote to deny Senate votes to Gay and Lesbian services of Kansas.
The committee sent the bill on a 16-5 vote to the full Student Senate, which previously had rejected a similar bill by 2 votes. The Senate voted on the bill during its meeting tonight.
Foubert explained that the bill would not prevent students from petitioning and voting to express their opinions on financing specific groups. The bill only would prevent the Senate from being bound by the outcome of such an election.
Foubert said that student senators sometimes had to act on their consciences and not on the wishes of the majority. The majority had to give their funds from an unpopular minority, he said.
STUDENT SENATE rules allow students to call for an election by petition. If 10 percent of the students enrolled signed a vote, the Committee would consider concurring such a vote.
"I think that it's wrong," he said. "I think that discrimination. I said that avenue should be shut."
But opponents of the measure said the bill, in approved, would stifle students' free speech. Aaron, a member of the Rights Committee, said the measure would send the wrong signals to students.
Aaron said that student initiative elections were an opportunity to educate the KU students about the issues involved.
"AT LEAST THEY'LL have the opportunity to be educated about an issue and given the chance to show their true colors," he said.
But she said the cost of defending the group before such an election would have killed Gunen.
Committee member Ruth Lichtwardt, who is GLSOK director, agreed with Aaron that an initiative on financing student organization was a good opportunity to educate students.
"Who's going to pay for the education?" Lichtwardt asked. "It's the group that's going to be attacked. Just by bringing the voter to the polls, just by the vote or not, would have killed the group."
A petition circulated last spring called for a campus vote on whether the Senate should finance GLOSO. The petition has been moved to the Elections Committee for review.
The committee rejected the petition last fall, but its ruling was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The Rights Committee last night rejected two attempts to table the bill.
In other action last night the committee approved an amended measure that would prevent the chairman of the Elections body from receiving all resident body president, vice president or student.
Senate to decide financial fate of groups
Last fall, Davidson filed to run for a Senate seat. But he withdrew from the race after the Senate voted to recommend that he either resign as Elections Committee chairman or not run for office.
he decided not to run.
In its original form, the bill would have kept any member of the Elections Committee from running for those offices.
He decided not to run.
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Req.
The Student Senate tonight will decide the financial fate of 33 student groups — including Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, which goes before the Senate without a recommendation for financing of the group.
The Senate Finance Committee earlier this month recommended allocations for 32 non-revenue code groups, but failed to decide on an amount for GLOSK.
The Senate meets at 7 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union
Non-revenue code groups are small
student groups that request Senate money annually and generally promote a special interest. The money requested is for fiscal 1986, which includes the 1985-86 school year.
After several hours of debate on the financing of GLSOK, Finance Committee members could not decide whether the group should receive Senate funds.
CONTROVERSY surrounding GLOSK financing focused on whether individual morality should serve as a guideline when a group whether a group should receive Senate funds.
Despite not receiving a recommendation from the committee, Ruth Lichtwardt, GLSOK director, said yesterday that she
thought the group would fare better with the Senate.
"I'm pretty optimistic," she said.
"There's no way they can look at us as a student organization and deny us funds — unless it's from people not liking homosexuals and that shouldn't be taken into account
"We are carrying a significant amount of the student body." Lightward said.
GLSOK had requested $728 from the Senate for office rent and phone.
Last year, the Finance Committee recommended that GLSOK not receive any Senate funds, but the Senate voted to allocate $505 to the group.
MONEY DISTRIBUTED among groups is
generated from the $2B activity fee students will pay with their tuition next fall and spring
The committee had $51,180 to distribute among the groups but recommended allocating only $28,910. The remaining $22,278 would put in the Senate's unallocated account.
The Senate also may consider a bill requesting $10,000 to pay for a study on cancer.
The Finance Committee approved the bill Monday night with a favorable recomme-dation.
The $10,000, which would be taken from the Senate unallocated account, would be used to pay two KU workers to investigate areas on campus that might need better lighting.
Bus routes may change if grant money is used
By JULI WARREN Staff Reporter
A plan to use federal money to provide the campus and the city four new buses may be rejected by the Lawrence Bus Co. if the company has to change its routes to meet federal regulations, the general manager of the company said recently.
Duane Ogle, the general manager, said the city was trying to qualify for money for the project from the federal Urban Mass Transport Administration. Price Banks, city planning director, said the money would help the city buy four buses to replace existing busos.
Lawrence Bus Co. is the contractor for KU on Wheels, the campus bus service, which
If the money is granted, the four buses
could be read for use in the spring, said
Banks.
The regulations say citizens must be served equally by services financed by the federal government. For the Lawrence Bus Authority, expanding routes to serve more citizens.
BUT BECAUSE federal antidiscrimination regulations must be met to quality for the funds, the bus company might
have to change its routes if it gets the new buses, Banks said.
Expanded routes may cost the company extra money. Banks said.
OGLE SAID THAT if the routes were not changed, the bus company probably would accept the federal money. He said it would refuse the money if routes were expanded and the company had to pay the extra operating costs.
The federal funds would pay for 80 percent of the cost of buying the new buses, which cost $140,000 each. The bus company would pay the remainder.
But it would be willing to provide expanded service if city officials agreed to work out an agreement like the KU on Wheels arrangement, he said. Under such an agreement, the city would help pay the company to provide extended service.
Students now help pay for KU on Wheels through student fees.
K.C. architects chosen to help plan for Union
By PEGGY HELSEL
Staff Reporter
An architectural firm has been selected to assist in the development of a master plan for the renovation of the Kansas University director of the Union, announced yesterday.
The firm, Shaughnessy, Fickel and Scott, of Overland Park, was chosen from a field of 17 Kansas architectural firms for the renovation. We present presentations for the renovation project.
The firm will provide a team of five architects to help design the project, which is estimated to cost from $4 million to $5 million. Long said.
In January, the Board of Regents approved the plan to choose an architectural firm to assist with the renovation, Long said. A team composed of state and University representatives was assembled to select the firm. Firms have been making presentations for the past two months.
MEMBERS OF THE committee that chose the firm are Jack Nelson, a representative of the department of architectural services; Warren Corman, Regents facilities director and a member of the Board of Regiments building committee; Alan Weichert, KU director of facilities planning; and Long.
The master plan for the renovation will take about four months to develop. Long
After the master plan is developed, it must be approved by the Board of Regents, the University Building Committee, the Memorial Corporation Board and a committee that is overseeing the Union renovation.
Once a plan is developed, Long sad,
construction plans and blueprints will take
"The earliest you would see any construction is July of 1868," he said.
The plan will determine the cost of the project, the sequence of construction and when to start in terms of the academic schedule, he said.
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